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  2. NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
  3. Deploying NetBackup for OpenStack
  4. Spinning up the NetBackup for OpenStack VM
  5. Creating the cloud-init image
  6. Creating the image file
NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Creating the image file

Both files metadata and user-data is needed to create a working cloud-init image.

The image is created using genisoimage following this general command:

genisoimage -output <name>.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock </path/user-data> </path/meta-data>

An example of this command:

genisoimage  -output nbos-firstboot-config.iso -volid cidata 
-joliet -rock user-data meta-data

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